Vocab 8

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

Uses like or as to make different comparisons between two unlike ideas

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

Went out similarity between two unlike ideas

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman subject

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

A contradiction. Between what happens and what is expected

Question 5

Mood

Answer 5

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

Question 6

Theme

Answer 6

Central message concerning our purpose in a literary work

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

The writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject can be described as formal informal serious play for bitter ironic

Question 8

Figurative language

Answer 8

Language not meant to be taken literally

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggeration for affect

Question 10

Situation irony

Answer 10

When something happens that contradicts the expectations of the characters or the audience

Question 11

Verbal irony

Answer 11

When something contradictory said

Question 12

Dramatic irony

Answer 12

When the audience is aware of something that the character or speaker is not

Question 13

Plot

Answer 13

The sequence of events in a story includes an exposition the rising action climax falling action and resolution

Question 14

Opulent

Answer 14

Rich and superior in quality